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8 Poetry
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stanza | a paragraph in a poem |
| Rhyme | words that end with the same sound (Ex. cat/hat, mouse/house) |
| Couplet | two line stanza that rhymes |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a stanza (Ex AABB, ABAB, ABCB) |
| simile | describes something by comparing it to something else using the words "Like" or "as" (Ex: The boy is as hungry as a horse. You run like a rabbit) |
| metaphor | compares two things and DOES NOT use the word "like" or "as. The comparison is often implied. (Ex. The road was a ribbon winding through the hills.) |
| personification | giving human characteristics to a non-human object. Ex- The earth coughed and choked on the pollution) |
| alliteration | repeating the same consonant sound in a sentence. (Ex: Peter, Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers) |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound. (Ex: Buzz, swish, whoosh, meow) |
| hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration from the truth. (Ex: This car goes faster than the speed of light!) |
| consonance | The repetition of internal consonant sounds in nearby words. (Ex. I like the East Beast the least, and the west the best). The words all have the "st" sound. |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds with non-rhyming words. (Ex. East Beast sits upon his beach in the heat.)--This sentence repeats the long "e" sound. |
| lyric poem | a poem that expresses personal thoughts and feeligns |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story and has all the elements of plot |
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